
Annie The Musical
Thoroughly Modern Presents Annie The Musical “ONE OF THE BEST FAMILY MUSICALS EVER PENNED” -CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Tickets: Reserved Seating $32, $35 (plus $3 preservation fee)
ANNIE is based on Harold Gray's popular comic strip Little Orphan Annie. The comic strip premiered in the 1920s in the New York Daily News, and became one of the most widely read strips in the 30s and 40s. Lyricist-director Martin Charnin bought a coffee table book called “The Life and Hard Times of Little Orphan Annie” as a Christmas gift for a friend in 1970. The clerk at the bookstore was too busy to wrap the book, so Charnin took the book home to wrap it. Instead, he read it and fell in love with the strip, and set out to secure the rights, Christmas week of 1970. The friend never got the book. Read More